Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 549
Women Farmers in Chile to Teach the Region Agroecology
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Jan 04 (IPS) - An organisation that brings together some 10,000 peasant and indigenous women from Chile is launching an agroecology institute for women campesinos, or small farmers, in South America.
Saving Children From Loggers2
- Inter Press Service
Argentine Protesters vs Monsanto: “The Monster is Right on Top of Us”
- Inter Press Service
MALVINAS ARGENTINAS, Córdoba, Argentina, Jan 03 (IPS) - The people of this working-class suburb of Córdoba in Argentina's central farming belt stoically put up with the spraying of the week-killer glyphosate on the fields surrounding their neighbourhood. But the last straw was when U.S. biotech giant Monsanto showed up to build a seed plant.
More Vehicles in Latin America - More Deaths
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Jan 03 (IPS) - The family of Susana Suárez, a 35-year-old Venezuelan dentist, are still in shock over her death in a traffic accident in May. She and a friend were killed on their way back from the beach, and became just two more of the 130,000 victims who died on Latin America's roads in 2013.
Hospitality, Agriculture Firms Vulnerable to Human Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 03 (IPS) - Shareholders are calling on 15 U.S.-based multinational corporations to ensure that their global supply chains are not facilitating human rights abuses, particularly labour and sex trafficking.
Seedpods Worth More than Gold in Argentina’s Arid North
- Inter Press Service
GUANACO SOMBRIANA, Argentina, Jan 02 (IPS) - Tired of the drought driving away their men and killing their livestock, the women of Guanaco Sombriana, a town in northern Argentina, have found a new source of income by using the seedpods of native trees that up to now merely provided shade in this arid landscape.
Keeping the Grass Greener for African Plant Breeders
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Ghana, Jan 02 (IPS) - For the few plant breeders in Africa like Vivian Oduro, working for an international research institution is an obvious choice, with prestige and benefits any agricultural scientist would find hard to decline.
Farm Forecasts Try to Decode a Capricious Climate
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Dic 31 (IPS) - In the southwest peninsula of Cedros, one of Trinidad's driest areas, Jenson Alexander grows the cocoa used for many years by the British chocolate giant Cadbury.
Mexican Communities On Guard Against Thirst for Oil
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Dic 31 (IPS) - The Terra 123 oil and gas well in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco was in flames since late October, just 1.5 km from a community of 1,500 Oxiacaque indigenous villagers, who were never evacuated.
Pakistani NGOs Fear New Year Constraints
- Inter Press Service
LAHORE, Pakistan, Dic 31 (IPS) - A new policy by the Pakistani government to regulate foreign-funded non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has come in for sharp criticism from the social sector, with many saying it could stifle rights-based groups and affect crucial services provided to the needy.
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